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...which I am generally not fond. I copied an "original" limerick about a camel straight out of a children's poetry book in Mrs. Rubin's third grade class, and I'm still sorry about it. (Especially since Mrs. Rubin owned the same children's poetry book.) Professor Richard Marius, the director of Harvard's expository writing program, once wrote a story about a public hanging--then found the same exact story underneath someone else's byline 15 years later. (The plagiarist died soon afterwards. Coincidence? Perhaps...
...does to the plagiaree. In all but the most blatant cases, though, plagiarism is a victimless crime. Sure, Marius was upset that his entire story was heisted. ("It made me so mad, I could hardly bear it," he recalls...
UNTIL LAST YEAR, all first-year students were required to attend a two-hour Sanders Theater oration on plagiarism delivered by a certain Professor Richard Marius. He gleefully explained the dos and don'ts, the expellable and the suspendable, the dishonest and the stupid. For all the intricacies about uncited paraphrases and mislabelled footnotes, the message was seventh grade redux: plagiarism will get you in deep, deep trouble. That was our introduction to Harvard...
...Marius no longer delivers the inaugural plagiarism address. (He thinks he was ousted from the program because former Dean of Freshmen Henry C. Moses thought his lots-o-laughs approach to plagiarism was "undignified.") In fact, the seminar is no longer limited to plagiarism. It now covers the "serious disciplinary abuses" of plagiarism and date rape, which, if you ask me, is somewhat akin to a seminar on jaywalking and genocide...
...HEIGHT of the Vietnam War, Marius listened to Lyndon Johnson recite a paragraph of a Winston Churchill speech almost word-for-word. Marius's reaction: "I thought, 'That son-of-a-bitch! Not only is he a murderer, but he's a plagiarist...